History Trivia / KonoSuba

** Almost all of Megumin's incantations were ad libbed by her voice actress. During recording for the incantations, Takahashi Rie was given free reign to come up with whatever over-the-top cooler-than-cool drawn out lines she could up with to parodise fantasy spell incantations and even the staff have admitted to laughing their heads off at what she came up with during recording sessions.

** The English dub of ''Anime/IsekaiQuartet'' (which was dubbed in Texas) had Vanir voiced by Anthony Bowling. In the English dub of ''[=KonoSuba=]'' (which was dubbed in L.A.), he is voiced by Creator/RobbieDaymond.

* RelationshipVoiceActor:
** In the Japanese dub:
*** Megumin and Darkness are voiced by Creator/RieTakahashi and Creator/AiKayano respectively. Both voice actors were also Miki Naoki and Megumi Sakura in ''Manga/SchoolLive''.
*** Megumin (Creator/RieTakahashi) and Wiz (Creator/YuiHorie) are the two main leads of Anime/MahoGirlsPrecure. Now the dual explosion actually makes sense now. Also, Wiz was voiced by Creator/SaoriHayami in the Drama CD who voices Ha-chan/Cure Felice in the same series.
*** One pink-haired Axis cultist trying to recruit Kazuma (Creator/JunFukushima) into her religion in Season 2 Episode 8 is voiced by Creator/YuiOgura. They're like [[Anime/AquarionEvol Jin Muso and Yunoha Surool]] reincarnated into a wackier setting.
*** At least in the Japanese version, [[Creator/SoraAmamiya Aqua]], [[Creator/RieTakahashi Megumin]] and [[Creator/AiKayano Darkness]] are [[VideoGame/FireEmblemHeroes Eir, Fjorm and Gunnthra]]. At least only [[Creator/JunFukushima Kazuma]] hasn't voiced a ''Heroes'' original, but he's also there as [[VideoGame/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight Michalis]].
*** Megumin's mother Yuiyui is voiced by Creator/MamikoNoto and her husband Hyoizaburo is voiced by Creator/HirokiTakahashi. Old school anime fans might feel nostalgic with this pair, considering they did [[Manga/SchoolRumble Yakumo Tsukamoto and Kenji Harima]] before.
** In the English dub:
*** [[Creator/FayeMata Aqua]], [[Creator/EricaMendez Megumin]], [[Creator/KiraBuckland Chris]], [[Creator/ErikaHarlacher Luna]] and [[Creator/CristinaValenzuela Darkness]] were once [[Anime/LoveLive School Idols]]. Add [[Creator/PatrickSeitz Verdia]], [[Creator/BriannaKnickerbocker Wiz]], and [[Creator/KayliMills Yunyun]] and you've got [[Manga/HunterXHunter Neon Nostrade, Gon Freccss, Zushi, Kurapika Kuruta, Uvogin, Piyon, Eeta, Elena and Killua Zoldyck]].
*** The above eight were also in another isekai genre shows with Aqua, Megumin, Luna, Chris, Verdia, Yunyun, Wiz, and Darkness being [[LightNovel/SwordArtOnline Miyu Shinohara/Fukaziroh, Yuuki Konno, Sasha & Siune, Toma, Andrew Gilbert Mills/Agil, Alice Zuberg, Linel, and Alicia Rue]] and [[LightNovel/ReZero Priscilla Bariel, Puck, Crusch, Beatrice, Kadomon Risch, Emilia, Rem, and Elsa Granhiert]]. In the latter, [[Creator/BillyKametz Kyouya]] and [[Creator/RobbieDaymond Vanir]] are young Wilhelm van Astrea and his grandson Reinhard van Astrea.
*** Kazuma (Arnie Pantoja) and [[Creator/CristinaValenzuela Darkness]] are [[Manga/SaintSeiyaTheLostCanvas Pegasus Tenma and Pandora]].
*** [[Creator/BillyKametz Kyouya]], [[Creator/AllegraClark Sena]], [[Creator/KiraBuckland Chris]], and [[Creator/FayeMata Aqua]] are [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Josuke Higashikata, his mother Tomoko, Reimi Sugimoto, and Yukako Yamagishi]]
*** [[Creator/BillyKametz Kyouya]], [[Creator/AllegraClark Sena]], [[Creator/KiraBuckland Chris]], [[Creator/EricaMendez Megumin]], [[Creator/CristinaValenzuela Darkness]], and [[Creator/RobbieDaymond Vanir]] are [[VideoGame/ThirteenSentinelsAegisRim Nenji Ogata, Iori Fuyusaka, Ryoko Shinonome, Natsuno Minami, Megumi Yakushiji, and Takemi Wajima]].
*** [[Creator/BriannaKnickerbocker Wiz]], [[Creator/CristinaValenzuela Darkness]], [[Creator/AllegraClark Sena]], [[Creator/JackieLastra Komekko]], [[Creator/KayliMills Yunyun]], [[Creator/KeithSilverstein the Head Researcher]], and [[Creator/ErikaHarlacher Luna]] are [[VideoGame/GenShinImpact Hu Tao, Xingqiu and Bennett, Beidou, Xiangling, Keqing, Zhongli, and Venti]].
*** The scene when [[Creator/CristinaValenzuela Darkness]] creeps out [[Creator/PatrickSeitz Verdia]] due to her masochism can make you think [[Franchise/BlazBlue it's a Gag Reel where Ragna gets creeped out at Noel suddenly being masochistic.]] To be fair, it's a normal thing if it was Nu, but even then, Nu's masochism didn't go that far compared to Darkness.
*** It's also easy to think that with [[Creator/FayeMata Aqua]] and [[Creator/CristinaValenzuela Darkness]] around, Kazuma felt like [[VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends playing League of Legends queueing with Lulu and Riven, and both of them are being hardcore feeders.]]
*** A majority of the cast here all attended in [[VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses Black Eagles]] house, with [[Creator/FayeMata Aqua]] being Petra, [[Creator/EricaMendez Megumin]] being Bernadetta, [[Creator/BillyKametz Kyouya]] being Ferdinand Von Aegir, [[Creator/PatrickSeitz Verdia]] being Jeritza/Death Knight, [[Creator/AllegraClark Sena]] being Dorothea and [[Creator/RobbieDaymond Vanir]] being Hubert. Hilariously enough, [[TheOtherMarty before settling with]] [[Creator/TaraPlatt the current voice]], [[Creator/CristinaValenzuela Darkness was set to be Edelgard]]. Overall, it also makes the scene early at Season 2 when the frogs devour Aqua, Megumin and Sena look like the frogs invading Black Eagles house to eat the female students except Edelgard.
** In both [[Creator/RieTakahashi Japanese]] and [[Creator/EricaMendez English]], Megumin is always going to be [[VideoGame/FateGrandOrder Mash Kyrielight]].
*** Exclusively in Japan, though, the female main cast are all Servants. We mentioned [[Creator/RieTakahashi Megumin/Mash]] before, but now we also have [[Creator/SoraAmamiya Aqua/Thrud]] and [[Creator/AiKayano Darkness/Murasaki Shikibu]]. [[https://i.redd.it/v2zdhfb2uwz21.jpg People had a field day when the aforementioned Servants have all been released by noting the seiyuu connection (except Kazuma who only shared the protagonist seat and amusingly the male protagonist's hairstyle, not same seiyuu)]].
*** Amusingly, [[Creator/JunFukushima Kazuma is a Master,]] specifically [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Atrum Galliasta]]. While Kazuma is a JerkWithAHeartOfGold who later grows to trust his party, Atrum is a terrible {{Jerkass}} Master who doesn't trust the Servants he get along with in all of his incarnations in the Nasuverse.
** In both [[Creator/HirokiYasumoto Japanese]] and [[Creator/PatrickSeitz English]] versions of Verdia, he's [[Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers Germany]], [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Han]], [[Manga/BlackButler Agni]], [[LightNovel/SwordArtOnline Agil]], and [[VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair Nekomaru Nidai]].
** In the Latin American Spanish dub:
*** Darkness (Mireya Mendoza), Ruffian (Dan Osorio) and Luna (Analiz Sanchez) are [[WesternAnimation/RalphBreaksTheInternet Tiana, Butcher Boy and Candlehead]].
*** Chris and Eris (Angélica Villa) and Darkness (Mireya Mendoza) are [[Film/Deadpool2 Yukio and Vanessa]].
*** Kazuma (Javier Olguín), Darkness (Mireya Mendoza), Mitsurugi (Creator/JoseGilbertoVilchis), Yunyun (Creator/AlondraHidalgo), Sena (Karla Falcón) and Ruffian (Dan Osorio) are [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Shikamaru, Shizune, Neji, Hinata, Ino and Dosu Kinuta, respectively.]] And in [[VideoGame/NarutoShippudenUltimateNinjaStorm4 Ultimate Ninja Storm 4]] only, Aqua (Nycolle González) is Hanabi, Eris/Chris (Angélica Villa) is Himawari and Verdia (Erick Selim) is Orochimaru.
*** Both Kazuma's and Darkness' voice actors (Javier Olguín and Mireya Mendoza) are better known for being paired in Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan movies as Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy.

* NamesTheSame: There's another Kazuma Sato in real life, which is the name of a Japanese soccer player who plays in the J-League's third division.

* NoDubForYou: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] for the first season for English, Latin American, French and Russian languages in early 2019, but later played straight for the English dub of the second season until the following year. Besides a [[https://twitter.com/konosuba_anime/status/1147643492975271936 "coming soon"]] message, there has been no mention of a second season so far, which is odd considering the other dubs started airing the second season one week following the release of the first OVA in Crunchyroll's website (which did get an English dub alongside the aforementioned languages).

* TheOtherDarrin: The English dub of ''Anime/IsekaiQuartet'' (which was dubbed in Texas) had Vanir voiced by Anthony Bowling. In the English dub of ''[=KonoSuba=]'' (which was dubbed in L.A.), he is voiced by Creator/RobbieDaymond.

* FanNickname:
** The unnamed world that Kazuma was sent to, and Eris oversees, has been given the tongue-in-cheek nickname of "Fantasy Australia" by 4chan.
** Thanks to [[https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/6goiwo/why_is_lalatina_funny this infamous thread]], Kazuma is now known as "The Guy" to the Website/{{Reddit}} anime community.
** In certain circles, the dub of the show is often referred as Kono[[{{Pun}} Dub]]a, referencing to the term 'Sub vs Dub'.

* CharacterSpecificPages:
** [[Characters/KonoSubaKazumaSatou Kazuma Satou]]
** [[Characters/KonoSubaAqua Aqua]]

* SleeperHit: Before the anime aired, many wrote it off as yet another generic light novel harem and the fact that Creator/StudioDEEN was working on it didn't help matters either, not to mention that it was only scheduled to have 10 episodes rather than the usual 12. However after the first episode aired people were surprised at how funny the show actually ended up being and loved its charming brand of self-aware parody humor especially when many "trapped in a video game" anime usually take themselves [[SeriousBusiness far more seriously.]] It was one of the most well received anime in the Winter 2016 season and it absolutely dominated the sales charts in Japan, and a second season was announced at the end of the final episode.

* AmateurCast: Aside from the mentioned AllStarCast, many of the Japanese voice actors are newcomers or lesser-known voice actors who haven't voiced many leading anime roles.

** Inverted, as aside from Creator/AiKayano, Creator/YuiHorie, Creator/HirokiYasumoto and a few others, many of the Japanese voice actors are newcomers or lesser known voice actors who haven't voiced many leading anime roles.

* GodNeverSaidThat: In a footnote at the end of Volume 10, after Season 2 of the anime was finished, Natsume Akatsuki said that Studio DEEN had stopped working on ''Konosuba''. Many fans interpreted this as meaning the show was officially cancelled. He later clarified that they just stopped actively producing the anime, and were willing to pick it back up at a later time. However, the damage had been done, and many fans still believe that there won't be any more anime... despite Studio DEEN officially saying they were working on a new ''Konosuba'' anime project.
** In the end, Akatsuki's words turned out to be ExactWords, as the ''Legend of Crimson'' movie was produced by Creator/JCStaff.

* StarMakingRole: Kazuma for Creator/JunFukushima and Megumin for Creator/RieTakahashi.

* ThrowItIn: Apparently Kazuma's [[Creator/JunFukushima Japanese voice actor]] has been doing quite a lot of adlibbing, sometimes even causing a bit of confusion among the rest of the cast during recording. The scene in which Kazuma pulls Megumin's eyepatch is also adlibbed.

*** A majority of the cast here all attended in [[VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses Black Eagles]] house, with [[Creator/FayeMata Aqua being Petra]], [[Creator/EricaMendez Megumin]] being Bernadetta, [[Creator/BillyKametz Kyouya]] being Ferdinand Von Aegir, [[Creator/PatrickSeitz Verdia]] being Jeritza/Death Knight, [[Creator/AllegraClark Sena]] being Dorothea and [[Creator/RobbieDaymond Vanir]] being Hubert. Hilariously enough, [[TheOtherMarty before settling with]] [[Creator/TaraPlatt the current voice]], [[Creator/CristinaValenzuela Darkness was set to be Edelgard]]. Overall, it also makes the scene early at Season 2 when the frogs devour Aqua, Megumin and Sena look like the frogs invading Black Eagles house to eat the female students except Edelgard.

*** [[Creator/BriannaKnickerbocker Wiz]], [[Creator/CristinaValenzuela Darkness]], [[Creator/AllegraClark Sena]], [[Creator/JackieLastra Komekko]], [[Creator/KeithSilverstein the Head Researcher]], and [[Creator/ErikaHarlacher Luna]] are [[VideoGame/GenShinImpact Hu Tao, Xingqiu and Bennett, Beidou, Xiangling, Zhongli, and Venti]].

%%*** [[Creator/EricaMendez Megumin]], .

*** A majority of the cast here all attended in [[VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses Black Eagles]] house, with [[Creator/FayeMata Aqua being Petra]], [[Creator/EricaMendez Megumin being Bernadetta]], [[Creator/BillyKametz Kyouya]] being Ferdinand Von Aegir, [[Creator/PatrickSeitz Verdia]] being Jeritza/Death Knight, [[Creator/AllegraClark Sena]] being Dorothea and [[Creator/RobbieDaymond Hubert]] being Vanir. Hilariously enough, [[TheOtherMarty before settling with]] [[Creator/TaraPlatt the current voice]], [[Creator/CristinaValenzuela Darkness was set to be Edelgard]]. Overall, it also makes the scene early at Season 2 when the frogs devour Aqua, Megumin and Sena look like the frogs invading Black Eagles house to eat the female students except Edelgard.

%%*** [[Creator/BillyKametz Kyouya]], [[Creator/EricaMendez Megumin]], [[Creator/KiraBuckland Chris]], and [[Creator/FayeMata Aqua]].

%%*** [[Creator/BillyKametz Kyouya]], [[Creator/EricaMendez Megumin]], [[Creator/BriannaKnickerbocker Wiz]], [[Creator/CristinaValenzuela Darkness]], [[Creator/KiraBuckland Chris]], and [[Creator/FayeMata Aqua]].

*** A majority of the cast here all attended in [[VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses Black Eagles]] house, with [[Creator/FayeMata Aqua being Petra]], [[Creator/EricaMendez Megumin being Bernadetta]], [[Creator/BillyKametz Kyouya being Ferdinand]], [[Creator/PatrickSeitz Verdia being Jeritza/Death Knight]], [[Creator/AllegraClark Sena being Dorothea]] and [[Creator/RobbieDaymond Hubert being Vanir]]. Hilariously enough, [[TheOtherMarty before settling with]] [[Creator/TaraPlatt the current voice]], [[Creator/CristinaValenzuela Darkness was set to be Edelgard]]. Overall, it also makes the scene early at Season 2 when the frogs devour Aqua, Megumin and Sena look like the frogs invading Black Eagles house to eat the female students except Edelgard.

*** [[Creator/BillyKametz Kyouya]], [[Creator/EricaMendez Megumin]], [[Creator/BriannaKnickerbocker Wiz]], [[Creator/CristinaValenzuela Darkness]], [[Creator/KiraBuckland Chris]], and [[Creator/FayeMata Aqua]] are [[LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero Naofumi, Raphtalia, Filo, Fitoria, Rishia and Malty]].

* BigNameFan: Creator/RogerAvary, UsefulNotes/AcademyAward-winning co-writer on ''Film/PulpFiction'' and director of ''Film/KillingZoe'', praised the ''Legend of Crimson'' movie as "one of the best experiences in a cinema I’ve ever had" and "the reason cinema was invented," giving it [[https://letterboxd.com/avary/film/kono-subarashii-sekai-ni-shukufuku-wo-kurenai-densetsu/ a full five stars]] on Website/{{Letterboxd}}.[[note]]To put his love of the film amongst other anime in context, he gave ''Anime/SpiritedAway'' [[https://letterboxd.com/avary/film/spirited-away/ only 3-and-a-half stars on the same site]].[[/note]]

* BigNameFan: Creator/RogerAvary, UsefulNotes/AcademyAward-winning co-writer on ''Film/PulpFiction'' and director of ''Film/KillingZoe'', praised the ''Legend of Crimson'' movie as "one of the best experiences in a cinema I’ve ever had" and "the reason cinema was invented," giving it [[https://letterboxd.com/avary/film/kono-subarashii-sekai-ni-shukufuku-wo-kurenai-densetsu/ a full five stars'' on Website/{{Letterboxd}}.[[note]]To put his love of the film amongst other anime in context, he gave ''Anime/SpiritedAway'' [[https://letterboxd.com/avary/film/spirited-away/ only 3-and-a-half stars on the same site]].[[/note]]

* BigNameFan: Director and UsefulNotes/AcademyAward-winning screenwriter Creator/RogerAvary (co-writer on ''Film/PulpFiction'' and director of ''Film/KillingZoe'') praised the ''Legend of Crimson'' movie as "one of the best experiences in a cinema I’ve ever had" and "the reason cinema was invented," giving it [[https://letterboxd.com/avary/film/kono-subarashii-sekai-ni-shukufuku-wo-kurenai-densetsu/ a full five stars on Letterboxd]].[[note]]To put his love of the film amongst other anime in context, he gave ''Anime/SpiritedAway'' [[https://letterboxd.com/avary/film/spirited-away/ only 3-and-a-half stars on the same site]].[[/note]]

** In the end, Akatsuki's words turned out to be true, as the ''Legend of Crimson'' movie turned out to be made by Creator/JCStaff.

** In the English dub, only Kazuma is voiced by a new actor (Arnie Pantoja). [[Creator/FayeMata T]][[Creator/EricaMendez h]][[Creator/CristinaVee e]] [[Creator/PatrickSeitz r]][[Creator/BriannaKnickerbocker e]][[Creator/KiraBuckland st?]] no slouch either.

* ScheduleSlip: The English dub for the ''Legend of Crimson'' movie was supposed to be released in April 2020, but then came the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic. After an eight-month delay, the dub was finally released on New Year's Day 2021.

*** Exclusively in Japan, though, the female main cast are all Servants. We mentioned [[Creator/RieTakahashi Megumin/Mash]] before, but now we also have [[Creator/SoraAmamiya Aqua/Thrud]] and [[Creator/AiKayano Darkness/Murasaki Shikibu]]. [[https://i.redd.it/v2zdhfb2uwz21.jpg People had a field day when the aforementioned Servants have all been released by noting the seiyuu connection (except Kazuma who only shared the protagonist seat, not same seiyuu)]].

** In both [[Creator/HirokiYasumoto Japanese]] and [[Creator/PatrickSeitz English]] versions of Verdia, he's [[Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia Germany]], [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Han]], [[Manga/BlackButler Agni]], [[LightNovel/SwordArtOnline Agil]], and [[VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair Nekomaru Nidai]].

* ShoutOut: Kazuma's death is lifted straight from ''Manga/YuYuHakusho''[='=]s famous beginning, where Yusuke pushes a child out of the way of a truck when the child would have survived anyway, and he even gets a chance to sort out his afterlife as compensation. Of course, this work's parodic nature makes it so that Kazuma merely ''thinks'' he died heroically like Yusuke, when in reality his death was a lot less heroic and a lot more undignified.
** Kazuma makes a wish/decision that a Goddess would accompany him would be similar to the beginning of ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'', in which Keiichi asked the Goddess Belldandy to be his partner. Of course, just like the above, because of the show's parodic nature, Kazuma's Goddess, Aqua, turns out to be generally useless, self-centered and whiny as opposed to Belldandy being all helpful and nice.

** In both [[Creator/HirokiYasumoto Japanese]] and [[Creator/PatrickSeitz English]] versions of Verdia, he's [[Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia Germany]], [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Han]], [[Manga/BlackButler Agni]], [[LightNovel/SwordArtOnline Agil]], and [[VisualNovel/SuperDanganRonpa2 Nekomaru Nidai]].